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Updated: June 14, 2025
"He was not a good man," said Marie, turning to Jocelyn, as if she alone of all present would understand. "He was not a good husband, but " she shrugged her shoulders with one of her patient, shadowy smiles "it makes so little difference yes?" Jocelyn said nothing. None of them had aught to say to her. For each in that room could lay a separate sin at Victor Durnovo's door.
From the growth of that curtain-like moustache Victor Durnovo's worldly prosperity might have been said to date. No one seeing his mouth had before that time been prevailed upon to trust him. Nature has a way of hanging out signs and then covering them up, so that the casual fail to see.
In all eleven men were stricken, and of these ten died within three days. The eleventh recovered, but eventually remained at Msala. It was only on the evening of the third day that Jack and Guy found time to talk of the future. They had never left Durnovo's house, and on this third day they found time to dine together.
There was nothing for it but to establish a camp at Msala, and wait there until the builders had repaired the damaged canoes. The walls of Durnovo's house were still standing, and here Guy Oscard established himself with as much comfort as circumstances allowed.
His influence with the natives was great; his knowledge of the country second only to Durnovo's. During the fortnight that elapsed between the despatch of the telegram to Guy Oscard and the arrival of that resourceful individual at Loango, the whole coast was astir with preparation and excitement.
I have been thinking about it while I have been waiting here alone." The glow of Victor Durnovo's cigar died away as if in his attention he was forgetting to smoke; but he said nothing. "It seems to me," Jack went on, "that before we leave here we should draw up and sign a sort of deed of partnership. Of course, we trust each other perfectly there is no question of that.
The strange part of it was that Guy Oscard never attempted to degrade Durnovo from his post of joint commander. This puzzled the half-breed sorely. It may have been that Oscard knew men better than his indifferent manner would have led the observer to believe. Durnovo's was just one of those natures which in good hands might have been turned to good account.
So also was Maurice, because Durnovo's evident admiration of Jocelyn somewhat overcame his natural secrecy of character. "You'll hear of me, Miss Gordon, never fear, before three months are past," said Durnovo, in reply to a vague suggestion that his absence might extend to several months. "I am not the sort of man to come to grief by a foolish mistake or any unnecessary risk."
The lightning ran over the face of the river like will-o'-the-wisps; the whole heaven was streaked continuously with it. Suddenly the negroes leaped to their paddles and rowed with bent back, and wild staring eyes, as if possessed. They were covered by the muzzle of Durnovo's revolver.
But when he returned home it almost seemed as if he were conscious of the knowledge that was hers. She thought she detected a subtle difference in his manner towards herself something apologetic and humble. This was really the result of Victor Durnovo's threat made in the office of the factory long before.
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